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The monstrous, 600-mile storm — big ger than the whole state of Flori da — threatened to roll ashore early tomorrow, probably in Georgia or South Carolina. Heavy rain began falling from West Palm Beach to Cape Canaver al yesterday evening, with fore casters expecting tropical storm winds to come ashore just before dawn and hurricane force winds greater than 74 mph late this morn ing if the storm continued its cur rent path. By 8 p.m., Floyd was centered 205 miles east-southeast of Cape Canaveral, moving northwest at 12 mph. Its winds had eased from Monday’s 155 mph, but it was still a Category 4 storm, the second most powerful hurricane designation. “If this thing parallels us, it could act like a weed-eater going up the coast,” Craig Fugate of the Florida Emergency Operations Center said. Forecasters expected the eye of the storm to come within 50 miles of Daytona Beach early this afternoon as it moves north. Landfall was projected close to Charleston, S.C., by early tomor row, meteorologist Jeremy Pen nington with the National Hurri cane Center said. Walt Disney World closed ear ly because of the weather for the first time in its 28-year history. Other Orlando-area resorts like Universal Studios and Sea World also shut down. At Cape Canaveral’s nearly de serted Kennedy Space Center, 102 workers volunteered to stay behind to ride out Floyd, which NASA feared could destroy launch pads and the hangars where all four space shuttles are kept. “Everybody else is gone,” NASA spokesperson George Diller, one of the volunteers, said Moving: NNW at 12 r Sustained winds: 140 d [NEW YOP alican leadi commissi P-led Conj and taxes Wind gusts: 170 mph V . , , As of Tuesday, 8 p.m j rce, inclin.1 GA SC • Charleston • Savannah • Jacksonville • Daytona Beach Lk f Miami * 80“ lises across ■■“This idea ^Ingress or , jiiple,” wro cl makers in |Conimissi< Tierce, which pour meet i i I The 19-mi ae^s and gov oiated by Co Timend futu ie business , ize recomi aw - That same lav w HiTvitorium c ■The GOP ]( Source: AccuWeather by telephone from a fortMi 01 ^ ^ et11 building at the space center.flj kind of eerie out here.” President Clinton issued emptive disaster declaration Florida and Georgia to enab! covery efforts to begin as qefi as possible. He also planned: Pj . ; turn a day early from his trf| New Zealand. ■ATLANTK Union, automakers near deadlir |ss Americ: mw womer iokompete ft ien made. Robert L. 1 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Contract talks be tween the United Auto Workers and automakers in tensified yesterday as agreements covering 407,000 workers were due to expire at midnight. In the past, the union has extended contracts past the deadline. No extension had been made by midafternoon, but experts said a strike that would threaten a boom year for the auto industry seems un likely. The UAW has not called a national strike dur ing contract negotiations since 1976. The union, which has said little about the progress of the talks, appeared to be negotiating hardest with Daimler Chrysler AG. Officials met at the German-American automaker’s U.S. offices in Auburn Hills late into Monday night and resumed talks early yesterday. “The negotiations are proceeding very, very# but it isn’t over ’til it’s over, and we’ll all just havetc and see,” Daimler Chrysler co-chair Robert Eatc: the cable financial network CNBC from Frankfc many, where he was attending an industry trade; The UAW usually chooses one automakerto: a deal with first, then uses that deal as a tempi;:: other contracts. This year, union President Step Yokich has kept talks going with both CM an;.': ler Chrysler and refused to publicly name a tit?. Both sides have released little informatic::.' the talks. Wages, job security, health-cat® overtime demands and the assignment outside suppliers were expected to be amotes issues in this year’s talks, as they were dut last round in 1996. non, said ■reed to hoi in;, talks witl ■ The Asso pageant had of tradition b contracts tha never been it ■ The state | proposed cha the “high n ■ pageant has: ( Former M tants and the up against th Hot Situations Deserve © I M t i O w You could WIN A Ski Trip to Vail, Colorado Ora Casio®CASSIOPEIA™ E-100 Color Palm-size PC #!**' Play the COOL from Nestea® Hot Facts Sweepstakes! w i HyS® yKr. '<■«,. »«*.. ‘TH...IL 4 : Ni». -v.,.- HOT FACT #2 exercising each week? u ;; iw > ■ ✓ * What percentage of students work up a sweat A. 50% B. 53% C. 56% D. 59% IK . w that you’ve spotted this week’s Hot Fact, log onto WWW.COOlCOrB nee you’ve completed all four Hot Facts you will be automatically entered for a chance to win in the Hot Facts Sweepstakes. If you missed a Hot Fact, don’t worry. 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